Tesco significantly reduces application release time with Nolio

Retail giant, Tesco, has deployed Nolio ASAP to manageÂ application release automation across its website Â reducing Â release time from days toÂ hours.Â The system will Â support Tescoâs deployment automationÂ across its virtualised data centers, to improve theÂ application deployment process for Tesco.com.

Vipul Shah, Head of Release, Deployment and Software ConfigurationÂ Management at Tesco.com, said:Â âNolio allows us to greatly speed-up our roll-out processes and ensureÂ higher quality of releases. The productâs ease of use is hugely beneficialÂ to us in terms of maintainability and reducing overhead. â

The company has 5,380 stores around the world and over 500,000 employees. ItÂ is also one of the worldâs largest and fastest growing onlineÂ retailers, with offerings in a wide range of different markets, including financial services such as insurance. IT is critical Â Tescoâs successÂ and by converting manual application serviceÂ procedures into automated processes, the company is able to achieve high speed, accurateÂ and consistent application releases in sophisticated environments.

Nolio’s VP Order Cialis Online of Products, Eran Sher said:Â âThe ability to drive rapid IT change and maintain the integrity of a SaaSÂ application, while minimizing human errors is finally here. Although aÂ relatively new concept, Manifest Deployment builds on the well-triedÂ principle of keeping data and process separate. The benefits for large ITÂ users, when faced with wholesale IT changes, are huge and we are delightedÂ that Tesco chose Nolio as the correct technology for this major IT shift.â

Tesco selected Nolio as the key component of its manifest deploymentÂ strategy, which centralises application release processes by using an XMLÂ manifest as its live âsystem of recordâ throughout the deployment. Â With Nolioâs Application Release Automation Platform, Â this approachÂ separates deployment payload data from process, so that applicationÂ changes are deployed with a vastly decreased number of manual changes, reducing the risk ofÂ human error, preserving the new application architecture as the roll-outÂ progresses and ensuring a faster time to market.